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Yay I got more than one review. But i just realized that I'm updating in one day intervals. That doesn't give you guys much reviewing time, so just do what you want. Oh my Christmas sucked. :). My stupid little cousin Jack broke not only my favorite necklace but my mp3. He sucks. I didn't get many good presents from my dad's family. My grampa even got me make-up. I hate make up! Shows how well they know me. My mom's side got me some goodstuf though. My aunt got me lots of PJ's and I LOVE Pj's.:D! My mom got me stuff for my psp and the only thing my dad gave me was a new mp3 though new is hardly the word. He found it and just gave it to me. I feel loved. DX
Chapter 12: The Riddle
"Okay, ready." Miroku said holding the quill above the paper. Inuyasha had told him everything and they were just waiting for her.
"It doesn't make any sence." Kagome warned again.
"I know, but it's a lead. Tell us." Inuyasha asked.
Kagome sighed. "All right. The first line is the easiest and only one that makes sence. Deno carda Shikon no Tama. Which means the Jewel of good and evil basicly."
Miroku wrote it down. "Next line."
"Which lies in every Gaurdians heart." The boys looked at her, then her chest.
"It's not there." Kagome said. "There is more than one Guardian."
Miroku shrugged and wrote it down.
"Can be found in the dream." Kagome supplied without prompting.
"The dream?" Inuyasha asked.
"I told you." Kagome said deffensivly.
Miroku wrote it down.
"In the king's heart,
through heavan's gate,
Past the deciete,
Unlocked by the secret,
and held by love freely sacrificed.
reached only by livingwood
made only through pure giving."
Miroku wrote it down and looked at it.
Inuyasha did too. "You sure this is write?"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "I told you. Jibberish."
"I'm stumped." Miroku admited turning the paper sideways and squinting at it.
"It makes no sence!"
"Just as I said."
"You sure you translated it right?" Inuaysha asked.
Kagome opened her mouth to say she did thank you very much, when a thought accured to her.
"Kagome?"
"The translation!" Kagome said. "That's what's wrong. Some of these words mean different things. Let me see." she grabbed the paper. "The dream...the dream....the Dream...That's it. The ancient city Modoriko was called Utopia. It means paradise and paradise is the same word as dream."
"So the dream is the city." Miroku caught on.
"Yes." Miroku took the paper and made a side note that dream was a city.
"The king's heart. King means ruler....uh....crown..." Miroku and Inuyasha thought while Kagome through out random words.
"Center." Inuyasha said at last.
"What?" Kagome asked.
"The Kings heart. King for kingdom and heart, the capitol city."
"The capitol city was Utopia." Kagome said but then she understood. "The center of Utopia! The king's palace. Modoriko's palace." Miroku smiled and wrote it down.
"Okay now...past the deciet?"
"Trap." Kagome said immediatly having already unravled that one. "Like a booby trap. A deciet."
"Unlocked by the secret?"
"Kagome you mentioned a secret. What is it?" Inuyasha asked.
"Just as much jibberish as the riddle." but Kagome had learned from the riddle that it couldn't be purely jibberish. "It goes back to the second line. Which lies in every Guardians heart. It's uh..." Kagome had to think, "The Guardian holds the key unlocked by love."
Inuyasha stared at her. "The key is unlocked? That makes no sense."
"No it does." Miroku said. "This line here, unlocked by the secret. We can get past the booby trap with the key which is unlocked by the Guardians love."
"Yes that makes total sense." Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
"How about, held by love freely sacrificed?"
"Clueless." Inuyasha said.
"Why would you sacrifice love? How can sacrifice love?" Miroku asked.
Kagome looked at the riddle. "That's it!"
"What?" Miroku asked.
"I mixed up these words." Kagome said pointing to sacrificed and given two lines down. "Their the same word in the ancient language but I mixed them up. Held by love freely given, made only through pure sacrifice."
"Kagome you seem to be missing a line. Reached only by livingwood?"
"No. Not living wood. Living ship." Kagome corrected and his brightened. "Lori-thingy."
Kagome laughed. "Loringana. Held by love freely given, reached only by the living ship, made only through pure sacrifice."
"I'm even more confused."
"Han is a living ship made by pure sacrifice. He sacrificed letting his soul travel with his family to be your ship." Kagome smiled at Inuyasha.
"Anyone want to clue me in?" Miroku asked.
"That means Han can find it!" Inuyasha said excited.
"Hello?" Miroku continued.
"Han!" Kagome called to the ship.
"I heard my lady. And I shall be happy to transport you and the monkey to the Dream."
Inuaysha growled. "For the last time, I am not a monkey!"
"You jump around the ship and swing from it's ropes. Your a monkey."
"Kagome I am going to kill my own ship." Inuyasha threatened.
"Would you feel better if I called you puppy?"
Inuyasha growled and stared at the wood of the ship.
"Calm down Koinu." Kagome said gently and Inuyasha had the feeling the ship was laughing at him.
"Koinu better be an endearment." Inuyasha threatened her.
"It is...in a way." Kagome hedged.
"Yeah. It means puppy."
"Kagome!"
She laughed.
"Great." Miroku said throwing down his quill. "My Captain and Kagome have lost it." (AN: Imagine what he's hearing, huh?)
Kagome giggled and Inuyasha told Miroku what han was so he wouldn't think he was crazy.
"That explains...alot." Miroku admited.
"So where do we start looking?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know." Kagome said biting her lip. "The capital city has been lost since the Great Battle."
"Well obviously someone found it." Inuyasha pointed out.
"I know, but....I don't know where to look."
Miroku looked thoughtful. "Kagome where was the Great Battle fought?"
"The Dead plain. Why?"
"I think we'll find our answer there."
"Oh no!" Inuyasha protested Imediatly. "I am not going to the Dead Plain! We are going to that little island off of Quiten."
"Inuyasha what is so important about that island anyway?" Kagome asked.
"The women who first told me of the Shikon no Tama lives there."
"She's not expecting us." Miroku said. "I don't see why we can't go to the Dead Plain and find out what we can."
"I do. The Dead Plain has no ports. It's inland. We're on a ship."
"And the ship can sail without us." Miroku said. "We'll find out what we will and Kagome can call to Han when we're ready to come back."
"Ooh I get to wait for the puppy, how exciting."
Inuyasha growled at the ship then turned to his first mate. He remembered the Dead Plain only too clearly and he was adment about going back.
"No." He repeated. "We are not going to the Dead Plain, and that's FINAL!"
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